KIEV, Dec. 13 – President Viktor Yanukovych has signed a law abolishing criminal liability for certain economic offences, Andriy Portnov, head of the presidential administration’s Main Department for Judiciary, said on Tuesday.
On December 16, Parliament passed a law amending certain Ukrainian statutory acts and abolishing criminal liability for economic offenses, although it rejected amendments that would allow the release of former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.
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